Program 94: Facts About the Jesuits You Need to Know

Far from being a beneficial organization focused on education and missionary endeavors, the Jesuit order has been tied to political insurrections and even murder.

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Part 1: (Miles & Dave)

Miles Robey: Greetings! And a very warm welcome to World’s Last Chance Radio, bringing you truth-filled messages from the Scriptures. I’m your host, Miles Robey.

Dave Wright: And I’m Dave Wright. We’re glad you’ve made us a part of your day.

Miles: On WLC, if you’ve joined us before, you’ll know we always start with an explanation of a term that may be new to our first-time listeners, and that is the divine name. It’s not “God.” It’s not “Lord.” Those are simply generic titles that apply to false deities as well.

The Creator’s personal name is Yahuwah or Yah. The name of the son is Yahushua, which means “Yahuwah saves.”

Dave: Don’t forget—El, eloah, and elohim are used throughout Scripture as well. They’re Hebrew titles that refer to the Father.

Miles: We recently had a program that was a bit … well, delicate for want of a better word. It was about the Jesuits and the oath each priest must take before joining their order.

Now, as we said in that program, this wasn’t meant as a personal attack on any individual or their beliefs. I personally prefer to preach truth rather than attack error, but sometimes that truth, of necessity, warns of a dark danger.

Dave: It really does, Miles, and we have a responsibility to warn when we see danger.

It’s like a story I read recently. Back in 1962, two graduates from MIT, David Barnays and Charles Sawyer, decided to unwind with a visit to South America.

In Peru, they went on this hiking expedition through the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.

Miles: Sure! How else are two young scientists going to spend their vacation? Go hiking in the Andes!

Dave: In this mountain range, there’s a glacier referred to simply as 511.

A few years before, there’d been an avalanche and it was suspected that the avalanche had come from Glacier 511.

When they got there, the two young scientists discovered to their horror, that the entire thing was unstable. I mean, really unstable. It was, basically, one good breeze away from wiping out everything in the valley below.

Miles: So, what’d they do? Trigger it in a controlled detonation or something?

Dave: No! Thousands of people lived in that valley. Barnays and Sawyer did what any of us would do: they called off their hike and beat a hasty retreat down to the valley where they tried to warn the authorities of the danger.

Miles: Good!

Dave: Well, unbelievable as it sounds, the two men were arrested and thrown in jail for “causing a panic”!

Miles: You have got to be kidding me!

Dave: Nope! Wish I were. After spending two weeks trying to be heard, the two young men recanted their story and returned home to the United States. The warning had been not just ignored, but outright denied.

Miles: So what happened?

Dave: Well, Peru’s on the ring of fire, right? Just a few years later, on May 31, 1970, there was an earthquake in the area. The earthquake triggered an avalanche at Glacier 511. Over twenty-five thousand people were wiped out, buried under a wall of ice and rock. To this day, it remains the world’s deadliest avalanche in recorded history.

Miles: What a tragedy! And all because a well-meaning warning was ignored.

Dave: The authorities didn’t want to hear it. It was “inconvenient.” How were they supposed to relocate over 25,000 people? And so those 25,000 people lost their lives because a warning—a timely warning—was rejected.

Miles: That’s a good illustration and it’s kind of how I feel talking about the Jesuits. It’s not a popular message. In fact, it’s a bit politically incorrect, especially in some of the countries we broadcast to. But the consequences of remaining ignorant of the danger are, honestly, quite dire.

Dave wasn’t able to get into everything he wanted to cover in our previous program on the Jesuits, so I’m just going to turn the time over to him. Dave?

Dave: Thanks, Miles. I’d like to start by reading a warning Yahushua gave that’s recorded in Matthew 7 verse 15. If you could turn there and read that for us, we need to take this warning to heart because the danger is very real.

Miles: All right, verse 15? It says: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

Dave: This warning obviously has a broad application. It can apply to ministers who are more concerned with maintaining the status quo and supporting the beliefs of the church that employs them, than they are with learning and spreading new truths.

But this also applies to the Jesuits. In fact, Francesco Borgia, the third Superior General of the Jesuit Order, once stated, quote: “We came in like lambs and will rule like wolves.” Unquote.

The order was established in 1540 by Pope Paul III with one goal: to defeat Protestantism and establish worldwide Papal rule. In the nearly 500, bloody years of their existence, they’ve had astonishing success.

Miles: How, though? Most ideologies don’t last that long but the Jesuits are still going strong.

Dave: Largely through deception. They’re very adaptable and, as we see in the oath they take when they join the order, they’re very willing to manipulate, lie, and murder to further their own agenda. They’ve infiltrated governments; they’ve established some of the best universities in the world—

Miles: It’s telling that the primary thing their universities are known for is for teaching law. They could focus on any number of other fields of study, but typically their universities are known for teaching law.

Dave: Of course. That’s how you mold the thinking—and the laws—of the next generation. Most people today are oblivious to the danger which the Jesuits present.

Miles: I’d say the danger’s even greater now, with a Jesuit becoming a pope for the first time in history.

Dave: I agree, and a lot of people who know their history are equally concerned. I’d like to spend the rest of our time presenting some facts everyone should know about the Jesuits. These are facts of history people used to know but which has largely been forgotten or glossed over in the politically correct atmosphere of today’s world.

Miles: So, what do we need to know?

Dave: The first thing we need to know is that Pope Clement XIV actually abolished the Jesuit order in 1773. By the 18^th century, European nations—including Catholic countries—were waking up to the disastrous affect the Jesuits were having by their meddling in national affairs. In fact, as the truth of Jesuit deeds became widely known, various governments became so infuriated that they demanded the Roman Catholic Church abolish the Jesuits once and for all. Government officials were able to bring enough political pressure to bear on Pope Clement XIII to get him to agree, but he died before he could follow through and abolish them.

Miles: That’s … convenient.

Dave: Only temporarily. His successor, Clement XIV, signed the decree abolishing the Jesuit Order on July 22, 1773. It’s reported that afterward when Count Florida Blanca came to thank him for following through with the dissolution order, Pope Clement smiled sadly and said, “I have signed my death warrant, but I have obeyed my conscience.”

Miles: And did he? Sign his death warrant, I mean?

Dave: Well, nine months later he was dead. It was a long, drawn-out death by poisoning. He, and a lot of others at the time, believed that the Jesuits were responsible.

Miles: A little too convenient.

Dave: This leads me to my next point everyone should know. No other entity on earth has been expelled and suppressed by both Catholic and non-Catholic countries alike, as have been the Jesuits.

Miles: Why? It’s intriguing that Catholic countries would expel them, too.

Dave: Well, it obviously wasn’t for their education or charity work. They were expelled for repeatedly engaging in and carrying out subversive political plots to advance their own agenda.

I’ve got a quote here I’d like you to read. It’s from The Babington Plot by J. E. C. Shepherd. Go ahead and read it.

Miles: "Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus [the Jesuit Order] was expelled from at least 83 countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversion plots against the welfare of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute [Thomas J. Campbell]. Practically every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting to political insurrection."

Dave: This is what the Jesuits are known for! For their deception, their spying, their infiltration of governments, their assassinations, and even fomenting revolutions. They worked and plotted behind the scenes all around the world, again: promoting their own agenda for world dominance.

When the Jesuits are expelled from a country, they simply change strategies and return to the country they were expelled from under a new disguise.

You know that quote I read earlier from Francesco Borgio, the third Superior General of the Jesuits?

Miles: Uh, yeah. About being wolves in sheep’s clothing?

Dave: I’d like you to read it for us again, followed by the sentence that comes after it. This quote reveals the Jesuits’ operational strategy.

Miles: Okay. It says, uh … “We came in like lambs and will rule like wolves. We shall be expelled like dogs and return like eagles.”

Interesting. Basically, he’s saying they’re an unstoppable force.

Dave: And they really have been.

Miles: One thing I learned about the Jesuits some time ago that really shocked me was that Adolph Hitler modeled his SS unit, not to mention his entire party structure, off of the organization structure of the Jesuits and the Roman Catholic Church.

Dave: That’s something that gets conveniently left out of the history books, isn’t it?

Miles: Well, yeah. Walter Schellenberg was the chief of Nazi counter-espionage. Give me just a second to pull this up here. I want to read you a statement he made …

Here we go. He said: "The S.S. organization had been constituted by [Heinrich] Himmler [a leading member of the Nazi party] according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly. Himmler's title as supreme chief of the S.S. was to be the equivalent of the Jesuits' 'General' and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church's hierarchical order."

Dave: There’s more. Listen to this. Hitler also said, quote: "I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits. Until now, there has never been anything more grandiose, on the earth, than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party… I am going to let you in on a secret… I am founding an Order… In my "Burgs" of the Order, we will raise up a youth which will make the world tremble…”

Then he kind of stopped himself and said he couldn’t say anymore.

Miles: It’s very revealing that the spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola influenced the SS as well, because they were known for their involvement with the occult.

Dave: There is a much closer link between the Catholic Church, the Jesuits, and the Nazi party than we’ve ever realized. Edmond Paris wrote a book entitled, The Secret History of the Jesuits. On page 138 he makes a really startling claim. Could you read it for us, please?

Right. Just there.

Miles: "The Fuhrer had come to power, thanks to the votes of the Catholic Zentrum [the Center Party overseen by Jesuit Ludwig Kaas], only five years before 1933, but most of the objectives cynically revealed in Mein Kampf were already realized; this book . . . was written by the Jesuit controlled Father Bernhardt Stempfle and signed by Hitler. For . . . it was the Society of Jesus which perfected the famous Pan-German programme as laid out in this book, and the Fuhrer endorsed it."

Dave: This is a startling claim! If true—and most people don’t make such claims unless their claims can be backed up—a Jesuit-controlled priest apparently wrote Mein Kampf. Hitler himself didn’t actually write it.

Franz von Papen was another powerful Nazi. He was instrumental in setting up the concordat between Germany and the Vatican. He said, quote: “The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy."

Miles: The Nazi party: Catholicism in action.

Dave: That’s truer than most people will ever realize.

One point we mentioned earlier that I want to revisit is the Jesuits’ influence on education. Over the last several hundred years, the Jesuits have succeeded in establishing the largest worldwide network of schools and universities.

Miles: Absolutely! A lot of well-known politicians and thought leaders have been educated in Jesuit universities. It’s how they’ve managed to mold the thinking of world leaders and produce generations of political and religious leaders who were favorable to the Catholic Church and her agenda.

Dave: Charles Spurgeon, as you know, was a very well-known, widely respected minister in 19^th century England. He once gave a sermon he entitled: “A Solemn Warning for All Churches.” In it, he warned that the beliefs of Protestant ministers graduating from Catholic universities were being influenced by their education under Jesuit teachers. He said, quote: “…they keep back a portion of the gospel … having studied in the devil’s new Jesuitical college.”

Miles: Hmmm. Rather damning thing to say but I’m sure it’s true.

Stay tuned, folks. We’ll continue in just a moment.

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* * *Part 2: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: In our other program about the Jesuits, we talked about their infamous oath. If you missed that program, I’d really encourage you to go back and listen to it again. It’s called The Secret of the Jesuits and you can listen to it on our website or on YouTube.

One section of the Jesuit Oath I think deserves a repeat. It’s very shocking. I’m going to read it here. It says, quote:

I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity present, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus.

Unquote. This is appalling! And when you remember that Pope Francis himself is a Jesuit and took this oath, it’s even more significant.

My question for you, Dave, is this: Have the Jesuits and their agents been responsible for assassinating heads of state over the centuries?

Dave: Absolutely. No question about it.

Jesuits assassinated any heads of state that tried to suppress the influence and meddling of the Jesuits in the affairs of state.

Miles: Like whom?

Dave: Well, William of Orange, Kings Henry III and Henry IV of France, Czars Alexander I and Alexander II of Russia, President Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez, to name just a few.

Miles: And this is documented? This can be established?

Dave: I believe it can, yes.

Miles: I remember what you said on our previous program about the Jesuits that, in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the US government tracked down the conspirators back to the Vatican.

Dave: That’s right. And Lincoln, remember, had been warned that his life was in danger from the Jesuits years before.

We probably would never have known this except Charles Chiniquy, an honest-hearted Roman Catholic priest who was personally acquainted with Lincoln, wrote about it in his book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.

Miles: Well, Chiniquy himself warned Lincoln the Jesuits were out to get him.

Dave: He wasn’t the only one. Thomas Harris was a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. He wrote a book entitled Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

In there, he wrote, quote: “It would seem that the Jesuits had had it in mind, from the beginning of the war [–which was the American Civil War in the 1860s–], to find an occasion for the taking off [or assassination] of Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln,” adding that “The favorite policy of the Jesuits [is] that of assassination.”

Miles: You mentioned U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated in 1963. You’re saying the Jesuits were behind that, too? But he was himself a Catholic!

Dave: I know. But the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church teach that their agenda must be paramount before any other obligation. Once he outwardly distanced himself from the papal agenda, and stood for more liberal ideals and human rights, he was considered, by their standards, a traitor to the Vatican and deserving of death.

Most people today don’t know this, but Kennedy made a point of standing independent from his Catholic allegiance and the Catholic Church is not going to put up with that if it impinges on their agenda.

Miles: I’m not seeing what was to be gained by killing Kennedy, though.

Dave: Kennedy had vowed to obliterate the Central Intelligence Agency. Now what you may not know is that a man named William Donovan founded the CIA. Donovan was … wait for it … a Knight of Malta.

Miles: That’s a Catholic lay religious order!

Dave: A Catholic military order. Not only that, but many—I don’t know if all, but many—of the CIA’s directors have been Roman Catholic.

Miles: One thing I’ve looked into before is the surprising—or, maybe I should say, not-so-surprising fact that the Jesuits control all the powerful secret societies that are shaping the New World Order. You mentioned the Knights of Malta, but there are also the Bilderberg group, the higher levels of the Knights of Columbus and the very highest levels of Opus Dei, which includes all the subgroups that fall under these powerful organizations: groups like the Council on Foreign Relations—

Dave: The Club of Rome.

Miles: Yeah.

Dave: M. F. Cusack wrote a book, published in 1896, entitled The Black Pope. Page 76 says, quote:

"There are still …[men and women] about the country, who will tell you, with grim gravity that, if you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top, head Mason of the world, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus are one and the same person!"

Miles: That actually doesn’t surprise me. The Jesuits have always been a militaristic order, after all.

Dave: They were also active in fomenting both World Wars and in escalating the Vietnam War after President Kennedy’s assassination.

I’d like you to read this quote from Edmond Paris’s book, The Secret History of the Jesuits.

Miles: All right, it says:

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of the two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

Hm. Interesting.

Dave: Speaking of World War II, the atrocities committed by the Jesuits, especially those under the Ustachi, are particularly disturbing and shocking. It’s documented! There’s actually photographic evidence of what they did!

Miles: And this didn’t happen hundreds or thousands of years ago. This happened in the 1940’s!

Dave: Right.

Miles: One thing maybe you could clarify for us. In our first segment, you talked about the Jesuits being outlawed by some pope back in the 1700s. But, obviously, the order is alive and well today. When were they restored?

Dave: Back in the early part of the 19^th century.

Pope Pius VII had been taken captive by Napoleon in 1809, and taken to France. After Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, Pius was set free. His first order of business upon returning to Rome was to restore the Jesuit order.

Miles: I guess they found it more convenient to have them at their disposal than to not have them at all.

Dave: That’s exactly what happened. It was more “expedient” to sanction an order that, in all likelihood, had never truly disbanded, but had just gone underground.

Miles: I’m sure.

Dave: One of the worst things for which the Jesuits are responsible, though, is taking over a revived Office of Inquisition. The Jesuits are, literally, responsible for the suffering and deaths of millions.

I’ve printed off some quotes from a number of sources that show the effect of Jesuits taking over the Office of the Inquisition. Maybe you could read those for us.

The first is from William Brownlee’s book, Popery: An Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty.

Miles: All right. It says:

Need I speak to you of the thirty years’ war in Germany, which was mainly instigated by the Jesuits, in order to deprive the Protestants of the right of free religious worship, secured to them by the treaty of Augsburg? Or of the Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about fifteen millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba, by the Spanish papists? In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that papal Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her unfounded claims to religious dominion.

Dave: This was written, what? A hundred years ago? More? You factor in the conflicts of the 20^th century that the Jesuits have had a hand in, and the number explodes exponentially.

Miles: Okay, this next quote is from History of the Church of God by Cushing Hassell. He says:

This was the century of the last religious wars in “Christendom,” the Thirty Years’ War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern Germany almost a desert, …

Wow. Those numbers are staggering!

Dave: The suffering is incalculable. And it was all for power. Okay. What does the next one say?

Miles: This is from Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI, by John Lord. He writes:

They are accused of securing the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,– one of the greatest crimes in the history of modern times, which led to the expulsion of four hundred thousand Protestants from France, and the execution of four hundred thousand more.

Dave: The Jesuits have always been merciless. Bohemia, by the year 1600, had a population of 4 million. Of these, fully 80 percent were Protestants.

However, by the time the Hapsburgs and Jesuits were through with Bohemia, the population had been reduced to 800,000 … all of whom were Catholic.

Miles: Three-point-two million individuals wiped out just for not being Catholic. Incomprehensible.

Dave: One final point people need to be aware of is that the doctrine of needing to confess your sins to a priest has acted as the largest intelligence gathering network in the world. More than any other order of priests, though, the Jesuits have dominated this network by supplying confessors to world leaders.

Even the New Catholic Encyclopedia says this! Here. Read this quote. Again, it’s from the New Catholic Encyclopedia and it’s talking about the Jesuits.

Miles: “They acted as royal confessor to all French kings for two centuries, from Henry III to Louis XV; to all German emperors after the early 17th century; to all Dukes of Bavaria after 1579; to most rulers of Poland and Portugal; to princely families throughout Europe …”

Dave: The Jesuits also served as advisors to kings.

Miles: So, of course, they could influence political policy.

Dave: And they did. It was the Jesuit confessor to Louis XIV that influenced him in the 1680s to revoke the Edict of Nantes, which had granted liberty to the Protestants.

Miles: And wherever religious liberty is revoked, persecution and death follows.

Dave: People who study world history are used to hearing of the conquistadores who slaughtered the native inhabitants of South and Central America, taking Jesuit priests with them wherever they went.

But Jesuit influence spread further. I have one last quote I’d like you to read. It’s from Matteo Damiani, from an article entitled “The Jesuits at the Chinese Imperial Court.”

Miles:

In 1582, Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci were the first Jesuits to obtain permission to enter China. The mission work in China introduced Western science, mathematics, astronomy, and visual arts to the Chinese imperial court, and carried on significant inter-cultural and philosophical dialogue with Chinese scholars, particularly with representatives of Confucianism.

At the time of their peak influence, members of the Jesuit delegation were considered some of the emperor’s most valued and trusted advisors, holding prestigious posts in the imperial government.

Dave: That’s how far Jesuit influence spread. Literally, around the world.

Miles: Here’s a scary thought: did you know that even the pope has a confessor and it must be a Jesuit? So even that information is fed straight to the Superior General of the Jesuit order.

Dave: Wake up, folks! This isn’t some benevolent, charitable order of the Catholic Church. This is the most militaristic order of the church and its weapon is control of education, which shapes the thinking of the next generation.

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* * *Daily Mailbag (Miles & Dave)

Miles: Time to dive into our Daily Mailbag! We’ve got a question from … Kędzierzyn-Koźle?? How would you say that?

Dave: Maybe we should just leave off the city names.

Miles laughs: It’s in Poland, folks! It’s in Poland. I just can’t wrap my tongue around the name. They’re all tongue twisters to me!

Dave: I’ve read that if you compare ages at which native language speakers attain a full working command of the language, Polish is the most difficult language in the world.

Miles: Really? Now see, I would have guessed Chinese or Russian or something like that.

Dave: I know, but that’s not what this report said. Apparently, in most languages, kids gain a full working-command of the language by age 12. Other languages, like Mandarin and English, native speakers don’t gain a full command of the language until about 14.

Polish, on the other hand, is so hard even for native Polish speakers that they don’t gain full command of it until they’re 17!

Miles: Well, thank you. That makes me feel not so inadequate. Okay! Our question is coming from Gita …

Dave: Yeees?

Miles laughs: You’re enjoying this, aren’t you? Wojtkiewicz? Woj–

Let’s just skip on to the question. She writes: “My son is dating a lovely young woman and seems to be very serious about her. She’s very kind and I think they make a lovely couple. The only concern I have—and it’s a big one—is that she comes from another religion. Not just another denomination within Christianity, but an entirely different religion.

“We’ve had some very good discussions about our differences in belief. She’s very sweet and very tolerant of others’ beliefs. However, her attitude is that one set of beliefs is as valid as another’s and Christianity is just one of many. My question is: what, specifically, sets Christianity apart from other religions? What are the unique aspects of Christianity not shared by most other religions? I’d be very grateful for any points you can share.”

Dave: Christianity is unique in a number of ways and I’d be happy to share with you some points on that.

Before we get to that, though, I want to address one thing: the young woman believes all beliefs are equally valid. I agree with her—

Miles: What?

Dave: –up to a point. A lot of Eastern religions are very tolerant of others’ beliefs. They view each person’s “path” as an equally valid spiritual journey.

Miles: Yeah, but … most Christians, myself included, tend to view their set of beliefs as true, and everyone else’s as wrong. You don’t agree?

Dave: No, I don’t. There is pure truth …

… and then there is everyone’s personal interpretations of what that pure truth is. I do believe that each person’s individual spiritual journey is as valid as another’s because I believe that Yahuwah is drawing every single soul to Him, but we all start at different points. This requires individual approaches.

Miles: That makes sense. He’s going to draw someone raised, say, Greek Orthodox, a different way than someone raised a Hindu.

Dave: This is the point of agreement where I would start in any discussion with this young woman. Don’t invalidate her understanding. Obviously, Yah is drawing her, too. But it is going to be individualized to her unique understanding, taking into account her background.

The point that is crucial, though, is that everyone of us keep learning. While each religion has some truth through which the spirit of Yah can draw individuals, each religion also has some error. What is wrong is to set ourselves up as superior to all other beliefs, reject them out of hand, and insist that we have pure truth and need no additional light.

Miles: That’s why the Laodicean church in Revelation 3 was denounced: “Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” [Revelation 3:17]

Dave: That perfectly sums up the attitude of last generation Christians. The truth is, while we all have some truth, we also have all been taught errors that must be laid aside. And the closer and closer we get to Yah, the source of all truth and light, the more in common we will find with others who are also drawing close to Him.

Now. That said, there are some beliefs that are unique to Christianity. Many religions, and even some sects within Christianity, believe that if a person does enough good, God will approve of him and accept him into Heaven, or Paradise, or whatever they believe happens to good people after death.

Miles: I remember an insightful comment by Dr. Steve Kern. He wrote: “World religions are self-helps on how man can pull himself up to God establishing his own goodness.”

Dave: That’s the direct opposite of what Scripture teaches. Let’s look at a few verses really quickly. Turn to Romans 3 and read verses 10 to 12.

Miles: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after Yah. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

Dave: In the first chapter of 2 Timothy, Paul invites believers to: “Share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of Yah, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, [Hear that? Not according to our works] but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Yahushua before time began.” [2 Timothy 1:8-9]

This is what sets Christianity truly apart from all other religions. Salvation is a gift. Full stop. There is nothing any of us can do, aside from trusting in the merits of the Saviour’s blood, to be saved. And no matter how good a life we live in the future, that still won’t atone for sins past.

Miles: Yeah, you know that Steve Kern I just told you about. I pulled up another quote of his. Let me read it really quickly because it encapsulates what you’re saying. He wrote, quote: “No other religion in the world teaches our need for [Yah] to save us by His finished work. They are all based on man working to develop his own righteousness by good deeds.”

Dave: Most religions believe in some sort of deity. I can think of a couple that don’t, but most do, and of the vast majority that do, they view their god as separate and apart from them. He (or she) is “up there” and we’re all “down here.”

This is why so many religions teach that you have to somehow get the attention of their deity. You have to leave him gifts and convince him to help you.

Miles: That’s not how it is with Yahuwah, is it? He makes a point of seeking us out.

Dave: That’s the main theme of the Bible! Yahuwah seeking out the lost. Jeremiah 31:3 says: “Yahuwah hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

Miles: That’s one of my favorite Bible verses. And because He loves us, He comes after us! He wants to be with us! In Exodus 25, He told Moses: “Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.” [Exodus 25:8]

All other religions have to entice their gods; they have to build on top of mountains—the “high places” where Israel always sacrificed to false gods. But with Yahuwah, He wants to come down and dwell with us.

Dave: Excellent example. In fact, when you study the Old Testament sanctuary, you’ll quickly discover something very fascinating: there were no stairs in it, anywhere. Yahuwah wanted it built right down on the ground and He would come down and draw close.

In the heathen temples, they always put in these massive staircases to raise themselves up. We don’t have to do that with Yahuwah.

Miles: I’ve noticed, too, that a lot of devotees of other religions seek to escape the reality of this world. They think if they can just reach a certain state of enlightenment (which only benefits themselves) they can somehow … detach from the world around them. Christians, on the other hand, seek to influence the world around them for good.

Dave: The primary difference between Christianity and all other religions, of course, is Yahushua. That’s the central theme, from Genesis to Revelation, and it is what reveals the self-sacrificing love of the Creator.

Miles: That’s true. I can’t think of another god or goddess that is actually selfless to the point of sacrificing his or her own beloved child to save an enemy.

Dave: This is what sets Christianity apart from all other religions: the Creator makes perfect creatures He loves like His own children. They rebel and hurt Him. They abandon Him for His worst enemy. But He doesn’t give up on them. He seeks them out, He does everything in His power to woo them back for no other reason than He loves them and He wants them to be happy.

Miles: “For Yah so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Dave: “For Yah sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

This, right here, is the good news of salvation. This is what sets Christianity apart from all other religions: the love of Yahuwah for those who didn’t love Him.

Miles: It’s that selfless, infinite love that sets Yahuwah apart from all other gods. It separates error and falsehood from the truth.

Dave: The Saviour’s death is the ultimate example of love and the love it reveals, is the love of the Father.

You don’t need to denounce someone else’s beliefs. In fact, you shouldn’t. There’s enough truth there for Yahuwah to draw them to Him. What you should do instead, is to present before them the beauty of the more advanced truths you know. That’s all you have to do. You don’t have to attack error.

As you present truth, if they are responding to the drawing of the Holy Spirit at all, they will see the truth in what you present and respond.

Miles: It’s good to remember that it’s not our job to convict hearts. That’s the Holy Spirit’s job. All we have to do is present truth and let it be seen in our own lives through faith in Yahushua.

Dave: Very true.

Miles: Keep on sending us your questions and comments. Go to WorldsLastChance.com and click on Contact Us. We always enjoy hearing from our listeners and we’ll do our best to answer every question, if not on air, at least on the Q&As on our website.

* * *Daily Promise

Antoine McCoy is a teacher. One day as he drove to work in the southern United States, tornado sirens started blasting. At the school, the kids were in the standard tornado drill position they’d practiced all year. Antoine wasn’t concerned. He simply shrugged it off as just another practice.

However, as two more hours passed and the sirens went off three more times, the principle decided to follow tornado drill procedures and send the kids home on the school busses. Two hours after that, the teachers were finally given permission to leave the school as well.

Still unconcerned, Antoine began the 45-minute drive home. It was a calm, peaceful trip. The sun was shining, the roads were almost entirely clear of traffic. There were a few cars pumping gas at the service station with more people at the local grocery store stocking up for the severe thunderstorm that had been forecast.

Antoine chuckled. He thought: “What a waste of gas to drive clear across the county and back home just for a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning.”

He felt a bit smug. After all, he was from New York. He’d survived severe blizzards. Southerners just needed to lighten up a bit.

At home, the power was out, but everything was still calm and peaceful. His wife, 8 months pregnant, was napping. Antoine turned on his battery-powered MP3 player … and felt the first stab of fear. A tornado had touched down in a neighboring county and was headed straight toward them.

He quickly woke his wife then grabbed a flashlight, pillows, and blankets and put them in a closet, the only thing he could think of for immediate protection.

“Find shelter!” The radio blared. “The tornado is now in our county, headed straight for us.”

Antoine and his wife squeezed into the closet. Antoine began to pray:

“[Father], please protect Melissa, the baby, and me. Protect our neighbors and our neighborhood from the storm. You are God of the universe. You have the power to lift tornados over our house and neighborhood. You promised in Isaiah 54:17 that no weapon formed against us would prosper and in Psalm 91 that you would command your angels to guard us in all our ways. Send your angels now and protect us.”

The wind sounded like a freight train. Their house shook and shuddered under the force of it. Antoine kept repeating the promises, praying the windows would hold.

Five minutes later, the wind had passed and everything was peaceful and calm. Antoine and his wife rejoiced that they were safe and nothing worse had happened. A few minutes later, their neighbor came over, trembling. He showed them pictures on his smartphone. Antoine’s stomach dropped.

The gas station and grocery store he’d driven past less than an hour before were utterly demolished. Homes in a subdivision less than a kilometer away had been completely destroyed. Houses in the neighborhood right next to theirs were severely damaged, trees were uprooted, and cars strewn everywhere. And yet, their neighborhood had escaped without any real damage.

Antoine and his wife were speechless. Yah had answered their prayers and protected not only them, but their entire neighborhood as well.

Later, the couple learned that the tornados that had swept through their county were among the deadliest ever recorded in US history. They were classified as EF5 tornadoes—the highest ranking given tornadoes and what some call “acts of God” because of how destructive they are.

Antoine says: “Our community experienced tragedy that day that cannot be explained, but I do know this to be true: One small, quick prayer of faith is a powerful weapon because we pray to a powerful [Eloah]. Though we were unprepared, out of His own goodness and sovereignty [Yahuwah] more than protected us when we called on His name.”

If you’re in danger with no way out, call on the name of Yahuwah.

Isaiah 54, verse 17 says: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper … This is the heritage of the servants of Yah, And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says Yahuwah.”

We have been given great and precious promises. Go, and start claiming!

* * *Part 3: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: With these facts in mind, I have to say, it’s shocking to see how the world’s religious and political figures fawn over the pope. Just a very simple case in point: when most women, even queens, have audiences with the pope, they are required to wear black. Only queens that are Roman Catholic may wear white in the presence of the pope.

So, you’ve got this great visual: the pope wears white, and he’s surrounded by men in dark suits, and women in black clothing. What subconscious message does that send?

Dave: That he’s holy and everyone else isn’t.

You’re right. Today’s leaders have no business being on such intimate terms with this evil power. Leaders in the past knew this!

William Sherman was an American general in the 19^th century. I would like you to read this statement he made, based on his experiences and observations.

Miles:

I would remind you of Webster’s [dictionary’s] definition of a Jesuit: a designer, an intriguer. If the Church of Rome prevailed, the Pope would be the Universal King . . . The Jesuits are here to plot and scheme and, if possible, take from us the noble heritage of our civil and religious freedom. The rules of the Jesuit Order justify theft, licentiousness, lying, false-witness bearing, suicide and the murder of parents and other relatives. The greatest crimes in history committed against individuals and nations have been committed by the Jesuits . . . Wherever Jesuits are they have the torch to burn, the sword to slay, the inquisition to torture. They are the enemies of Christianity. They live for conquest, fortune and glory.

Dave: We can’t forget that the boast of the Roman Catholic Church is that she is infallible and, as such, never changes. We need to take this warning to heart! You consider history, factor in that we’re living at the end of the world and a Jesuit pope—the eighth and final pope prophesied in Revelation 17 sits on the papal throne—it becomes very portentous that the Catholic Church has never apologized for its crimes against humanity and maintains popes’ infallibility to this day.

Rome and her Jesuits are the greatest enemies of the Gospel and of humanity in the world today. They are going to play an integral role in last day events.

The good news is, Satan and all his minions are conquered foes. We don’t need to fear anything they might do. Our part is to get to know the Father; trust in Him, and He will take care of us.

Miles: I want to end on a promise taken from Revelation 20 and 21. Speaking of the judgment of the wicked, it says:

The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. [Rev. 20:10, 14-15 & 21:1]

Please join us again tomorrow, and until then, remember: Yahuwah loves you . . . and He is safe to trust!

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